Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-26
THE LATE BIG STORM.
RIws FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA
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Especial telegram TO the Dispatch.1
RALEIGH, n. c., August 25.-The
topic of talk in many of the eastern
counties is the late disastrous storm, or
rather hurricane. You have been in
formed at some length OF the destruc-
ton it wrought, but half the bad news
has not yet been told, it is suspected.
The tide at Hatteras hast Friday was
the highest since 1916, and the violence
of the storm was almost unparalleled.
Every vessel in the sound in all that
section was beached, and not n few
badly damaged. The crops are badly
damaged. The loss, some persons az
seit, will reach as high a figure as 49,
per cent. in some counties This is one
of the worst features of the affair.
Strange stories are told of the extreme
violence of the wind just before day
light last Saturday. 1t is said to have
blown vessel entirely upon the high
land many feet distant from the shore
and considerably above its level.
Mr.. w. II. Meadows's extensive grist-
mills OF Newberne were burned early
yesterday morning. The loss is several
thousand dollars. A number of people
are thrown out of employment. The
mills will be rebuilt at once. Ellis's
rice-mills, very near those OF Mr..
Meadows, were saved from destruction
only by prompt and good work on the
part of the firemen.
ANOTORIOUs HORsE-THTEF.
Some weeks ago a requisition was
made by the Governor of South Caro-
lima for one Owen Manning atlas Obed
Maredy, a notorious horse-thief. 1t was
found that he had stolen a great deal OF
property of that sort in this State, and
30 the Governor, when Manning was
arrested, refused to give him up. He
was arrested in swamp i'll Beaufort
county after many shots had been
fired and after he had been
wounded severely. Manning's track
across the State from Robson county
to Beaufort was marked by horse
stealing, while other kinds of property
were also bagGed. Tuesday he was
tried at Lumberton, in Robson county,
speedily convicted, and sentenced to
ten years imprisonment in the penl-
Tertiary. He said, on being granted
permission to speak, that he was thirty
five years old, and that up to two years
ago he had lived a good life. He be-
gan his crimes by taking stolen goods,
and later horse stealing became
passion with him. He had stolen
horses in dozen counties. He is by
birth a South Carolinian. Thus ends.
for time, the career of the most no.
torious horse thief in this State in
many years.
THE NEW RAILROAD.
The news of the completion OF the
railway from Suffolk to Roxabel is re-
ccived with great pleasure. The peo-
pie on the line are very proud OF it.
The engineer says it passes through
one of the most fertile regions in the
entire State. The lands are fine, the
crops large, and the people thrifty.
He tells of crops of cotton and corn
which are unsurpassed in the South.
Norfolk will gain much trade by the
completion of this road.
The following are the names Of those
persons who were granted license as
pharmacists by the State Board of
Pharmacy at its recent session b. W.
Wells, Salisbury; w. II. Justus, Hen
Jacksonville :; L. i. Smith, franklin;
c. A. Raysor, Asheville ; j. f. Curry,
Gastonia, and j. NJ. Wagner, States
vile.
IT WAS SUICIDE.
The death of Mr.. Warren. of Pros
pect Hill, while hunting in the woods
last week, has been sent you. 1t WIS
at first believed that the death was ac-
cidental, but it now appears beyond
question to have been a case of suicide.
The scarcity of cotton-ties promises
to cause very serious Inconvenience at
the markets in this State as we'll as
further South.
The important case of McElwee
against Blackwell, involving the right
to the Durham Bull trademark, was
taLen up at Roxboro' to-day. Congress
man Nichols is Witness.
An election was held in Harnett
county to-day on the issue of bonds
for the enlargement of the courthouse
and jail.
The trial of two white men named
Aiken and Morgan for the murder of
another white man began at Asheville
to-day.
1be condition of Colonel Eugene
MoreheOd, prominent banker OF Dur
ham and paymaster-general of the
state. is reported as hopeless. He is
i'll hospital at Philadelphia. He is a
son of the late Governor Morehead.
MYSTERIOUS SHOT.
Yesterday afternoon as workmen in
Thomas's planing-mills, at Durham,
were at work bullet from a rifle of
large calibre and evidently from a great
distance pierced the wall and painfully
wounded man named Belts.
Last December by a railway accident
on the Asheville and Spartanburg rail-
WAY j. C. S. Timberlake and Mrs. Van
Euren were severely injured. Each
brought suit for fifty thousand dollars
damages before the North Carolina
Supreme Court. Yesterday counsel for
the railway succeeded in having the
suits transferred to the Federal court
at Asheville.
The Western Fruit-Growers' Asso-
citation held its meeting at Asheville
yesterday and made arrangements for
holding fair next year. Twenty-Five
leading growers were present.
The German bark Albatross put into
Wilmington yesterday badly damaged
by hurricane off Cape Lookout. Her
cargo of $50 tons of salt is also dam
aged.
FIRE AT WILMINGTON
early this morning burned the resi-
dence of W. b. Davis, causing loss of
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